{"id":66449,"date":"2026-02-16T09:59:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/ilia-malinin-writes-about-inevitable-crash-after-olympic-figure-skating-shock\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:59:33","slug":"ilia-malinin-writes-about-inevitable-crash-after-olympic-figure-skating-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/ilia-malinin-writes-about-inevitable-crash-after-olympic-figure-skating-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Malinin writes about \u2018inevitable crash\u2019 after Olympic figure-skating shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>American was favourite for gold but finished eighth<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Video hints that experience may be used in routine<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/ilia-malinin\">Ilia Malinin<\/a> has written about \u201can inevitable crash\u201d after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/13\/ilia-malinin-olympics-figure-skating-mikhail-shaidorov\">he missed the podium<\/a> at the Winter Olympics in one of the biggest shocks in the history of figure skating.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old was the overwhelming favourite entering the men\u2019s free skate on Friday in Milan, but he fell twice during his routine. Kazakhstan\u2019s Mikhail Shaidorov won gold and Malinin finished 15th out of 24th in the free skate and eighth overall.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/16\/ilia-malinin-figure-skating-winter-olympics-pressure\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American was favourite for gold but finished eighth Video hints that experience may be used in routine Ilia Malinin has written about \u201can inevitable crash\u201d after he missed the podium at the Winter Olympics in one of the biggest shocks in the history of figure skating. The 21-year-old was the overwhelming favourite entering the men\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Ilia Malinin writes about \u2018inevitable crash\u2019 after Olympic figure-skating shock\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/ilia-malinin-writes-about-inevitable-crash-after-olympic-figure-skating-shock\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ilia Malinin writes about \u2018inevitable crash\u2019 after Olympic figure-skating shock\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}